Let me throw a kink into all this. Why is it that I am flying with it all 3 sims merged and I have yet to see this bug at all? Everyone one of my Mig's have skins on them. Hell when I get off duty I can get you screen shots too if you want. I find it odd that its happening to some but not all.
I installed in this order, SF2, SF2:V and SF2:E. Am I missing something?
Finally having been on the beta team for this series (Gen 1) its very very easy to miss something. For example when trying to squash a major bug, you can get focused on that and miss a minor one. Knowing all the members of the beta teams, some of who are modders here at CA, they do not lack a good quailty control. It's called s**t happens. TK will fix it. I am sure a few of the testers would not even take offense to what you said though.